14 Quotes by Larry Usher

The refs decided to let the kids make the plays down the stretch. We're not going to dwell on (the apparent non-calls), and the refs probably took the right approach (to the end of the game).

Our guys worked extremely hard, we thought well enough to win the game. We just made mental mistakes sometimes. Our effort was 100 percent and our mental game was probably 90 percent, but that's okay. Most teams will play 70 to 80 percent of both those.

I think Sam was a bit awe-struck at the start of the game, but he settled down well. He settled down well when we drew some plays up for him, and he stepped up.

We want to continue to play well coming into the playoffs.

We can't think about anything but the next game in order to win a championship. We need to win this next game.

We just weren't as assertive as we were against the man defense. We really didn't get that swagger back until about halfway through the third quarter when Grogan hit an open jumper, and we were fine from there.

We had about a three-week stretch where we weren't playing very well at all. We thought we played well enough to beat Crook County, and it didn't work out, but we're playing better. We just need to bottle the passion we play with against Pendleton and use it in the rest of our games.

We just keep making so many mental mistakes. I think the kids are tired. It's a long season, and we hadn't played at home in almost a month. But we need to play better than this to beat Crook County; they're playing very well right now.

We didn't make real good decisions down the stretch. We tried to force the ball. But defensively, Corvallis made plays. That's what you've got to do when you're down going into the fourth quarter.